DIEZ EL DIEZ - OCTUBRE 2023

En el episodio de este mes exploro algunos caminos del techno que me resultan muy interesantes. Tracks futuristas cortados con láser, latineo y mucho groove en un mix que evoluciona de lo más innovador a lo más clásico. 

Espero que os guste, gracias por escuchar y como siempre... ¡S/O a los productores por sus temazos!

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༄ TRACKLIST ༄

Verraco - jajaja
Florentino - Loka
Merca Bae & Alvva - Parkeo
Siu Mata - Love Parade 98
Nick León x Luca Durán - Joga Bola
INVT - ACID TWERK
Turboera - De La Harry
Sexapil - Pinger 5
Sakha - Clapkuenstler
Metrakit - Pandereta 2

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diez el diez [octubre 23]: Techno, Speed Dembow, Global Electronica...

Bienvenida TraTraTrax Sound Sistema, the joint alias of TraTraTrax co-founders Verraco, Nyksan and DJ Lomalinda.

As founders of the Colombian imprint, the trio have led a wave of experimentation and innovation in the global club underground, platforming the hybrid electronic sounds of Latin America while also pushing UK-born genres such as dubstep and garage into new sonic territories. Running alongside our November issue cover story, written by Rachel Grace Almeida, this cover mix is a deep, near-three hour rhythmic odyssey through destabilising techno, murky bass music, guaracha, dubstep and much more. There may even be some never-before-heard forthcoming TraTraTrax releases thrown into the fold – listen closely.

Read the Issue 149 cover story with TraTraTrax: crackm.ag/tratratrax

Issue 149 Cover Mix: TraTraTrax Sound Sistema (Verraco, DJ Lomalinda & Nyksan)

Rinse FM Podcast

TraTraTrax with DJ Cope & Felipe Orjuela - 06 December 2023

TraTraTrax: Ambie—Tón Special with Dj Lomalinda & Ezmeralda - 03 January 2024

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TraTraTrax with DJ+1 & Microhm - 07 February 2024

TraTraTrax with Dj Lomalinda & Nyksan - 06 March 2024

Introducing another notable talent hailing from South America: Entrañas, a musician from Quito, Ecuador, is one of the crucial producers in the experimental music scene of the region. His work is characterized by exploring and transforming Latin American music, especially Ecuadorian native sounds and rhythms. He mixes them with ambient, bass, grime, and club music, achieving a nontrivial dope effect that you will surely feel in the mix below. His music is filled with rich textures, deep basslines, powerful drums, and dark, hypnotic melodies. Entrañas frequently collaborates with prominent artists in the industry and has released his music on labels such as Tratratrax, CTM, NOFUTUR3, NAAFI, Traaampaaa, and many others.

@entranas

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In this issues vip client and uvd tsao are sharing the brightest edges of modern dance music from Central and South America. Extremely feminine and avantgarde, flamboyant and provocative, ghetto-born and roots-blending – it doesn’t pay much attention to so-called "good taste and the acceptable" and now it’s probably one of the biggest sources of ideas changing the global electronic music.
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As a producer and DJ, TSVI is in the form of his life—which you can't always say for an artist a decade in. He's been an enduring presence through several underground cycles for a reason: the man knows how to flow.

TSVI's RA Podcast features a solid number of new and forthcoming cuts from the current vanguard pushing club music forward, amongst them Verraco, Surusinghe, DJ Plead, Doctor Jeep, DJ JM, WOST and Dj Babatr—who just dropped a split 12" with TSVI on TraTraTrax last month.

Alongside the names you might expect, TSVI also leans into a streak of personal history. On RA.944 you'll hear fast, deep and percussive '90s and '00s cuts from Spain, Latin America and his native Italy, with a particular focus on the kind of playful progressive trance minted by the late, great Franchino. It makes for a truly dynamite mix.

@tsvisions @nervoushorizon

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/944

RA Podcast

RA.944 TSVI

This month's Late Horizon marks the end of the festival season, for me here in the Netherlands at least. With Draaimolen still fresh on my mind (best fest in NL in my humble opinion) I recorded this set, starting quite chill at 140 and gradually building up within that tempo (what a spectrum, love it!). Eventually building a bridge to higher tempos, finishing around 180 (or 90). Special mention to the Behuá Icára and unknown - untitled V.A. compilations, played three tracks from each. Also some unreleased bits inside. Cuídate! X

☆.𓋼𓍊 𓆏 𓍊𓋼𓍊.☆𓇼🐚☾☼🦪TRACKLIST𓇼🐚☾☼🦪☆.𓋼𓍊 𓆏 𓍊𓋼𓍊.☆
𓃮 Strategy - Freshmosphere ~ Community Library
𓃮 2562 - Redux ~ Tectonic Recordings
𓃮 Doctor Jeep - Macumba (Wata Igarashi Remix) ~ TraTraTrax
𓃮 Crisa ft. Wihtner FaGo - Chaikobino (Viiaan Remix) ~ Behuá Icára
𓃮 Digital Mystikz - Molten ~ Tectonic Recordings
𓃮 kassian - replicate ~ unkown - untitled
𓃮 DJ Trace & HLZ - Altered ~ Metalheadz
𓃮 Atrice - Backrooms ~ Ilian Tape
𓃮 Ciel & CCL - Goblin Mode ~ naff recordings
𓃮 DJ Babatr - La Machina (Orieta Chrem Remix) ~ unreleased
𓃮 Rolo Gallardo & Tribilin Sound - Ruperta (Lukrø & Vitu Valera Remix) ~ Cosmic Llamas Label
𓃮 Ene Ese - Yowieie ~ unreleased
𓃮 Seb H - groundtroops (version 5) ~ unreleased 
𓃮 Atrice - Chamber Of Mazarbul ~ Ilian Tape
𓃮 Hodge - Head Drop ~ TraTraTrax
𓃮 Teqmun - Optimistic Fly (TSVI Remix) ~ Nerve Collect
𓃮 Tokischa - Singamo (Cardozo edit)
𓃮 KAIFO - ANGO (Entrañas Remix)
𓃮 Doctor Jeep - Pika 2 ~ TraTraTrax
𓃮 Harba - Despair ~ re:lax
𓃮 Jeff Mills - In A Traumatized World ~ Axis Records
𓃮 Eusebeia - Vice & Virtue ~ Samurai Music
𓃮 Microhm - Gravitar ~ Terminal
𓃮 ROOi - Tecnocumbiero Vegano ~ REBOTE DISCOTECA
𓃮 ROSA PISTOLA presenta FREEBOT - Vai Vai ~ La Chekera REC
𓃮 sputnik one - blaze ~ unknown - untitled
𓃮 Carrier - FATHOM ~ FELT
𓃮 5RVZ - Trench ~ kinetic
𓃮 Will Hofbauer & Sangre Voss - Sema Clematis ~ whirm
𓃮 Piezo - Thoughts, Heavy ~ Ansia
𓃮 Batu - Sour 2 Taste ~ A Long Strange Dream
𓃮 kouslin - sunken ~ unknown - untitled
𓃮 Dunk & Theoretical - Transition ~ ThirtyOne Recordings
𓃮  Reptile & Supersadfish ft. Wihtner FaGo - Koiramenon Ikanwe ~ Behuá Icára
𓃮 NAKANO BLU - FURTHER SOUTH ~ traumgarten
𓃮 DJ Polo & Breaka & Swordman Kitala - Dance Hall Again (Kaval & Stacktrace Remix) ~ Grid
𓃮 piezo - souk 96 ~ unknown - untitled
𓃮 Mlee ft. Wihtner FaGo - Mai Yoshin ~ Behuá Icára
𓃮 La Mulenze - ESTAR ENAMORADO (1OO1O jungleton mix)

Late Horizon w/ Jeff Revolución - 10th September 2024

Read the cover feature: https://bit.ly/verracomixmag
Tracklist: https://bit.ly/verracocmix

@TraTraTrax co-founder @verraco showcases his upfront DJ style with a 90-minute mix of hybrid sounds.

"I wanted to make a mix that could be listened to at home, but that at the same time reflects part of what my DJing is today. That's why I decided to record it with an Allen & Heath Xone:92 mixer and three CDJs and inject my approach and technique, I guess. I thought about the tracklist for almost two months, trying to make it a document that can be listened today, but hopefully also revisited as time goes by."

The Cover Mix: Verraco

In this mix, I’m stepping away from my usual dark disco, indie dance and EBM influences to dive into something closer to home—exploring the infectious sounds of "latinclub." You'll hear rhythms like dembow, bazilian funk, breakbeat, bass, and electrodance, all coming together in a blend that reflects my roots and my ongoing musical journey. This mix is an experiment, a fusion of the underground with the cultural sounds of my where I'm from. I hope you enjoy this journey through my world of beats

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Bedroom Sessions #1: ALTERNATIVE LATINCLUB: Dembow n' Bass|Brazilian Funk|Breakbeat|Electrodance

Pre-order: https://lechugazafiro.bandcamp.com/album/desde-los-o-dos-de-un-sapo

Blazing a new trail on Colombia's @tratratrax, Uruguayan sound artist and producer @lechugazafiro delivers a new 7-track record, 'Desde los o​í​dos de un sapo'.

Sound design, field recording and cutting-edge electronic music made in South America come together on the record, a wide and complex rhythmic-timbral universe.

More exclusive music

Premiere: Lechuga Zafiro 'Botellharpa'

Relentless rhythms and Latin dance history, courtesy of the TraTraTrax innovator.

Percussion is, at the root, a conversation. It's about different instruments meeting each other, and interacting to form something bigger than the sum of its parts. 

Few engage in this dialogue as boldly as Pablo De Vargas, AKA Uruguayan experimentalist Lechuga Zafiro, who draws from tradition, to make sounds like candombe and clave feel, well, completely new.

De Vargas' music reaches outward, building bridges between Montevideo and Bogotá, Tijuana, Berlin and beyond. He's a key figure in the hybridisation of Latin American club music, with releases on labels like NAAFI and an album on TraTraTrax.

His RA Podcast plays like a manifesto in motion. RA.985 opens with a recording of Jorginho Gularte, a Uruguayan composer, playing a jazz rhythm, from there, it expands: cuban guaguancó, Venezuelan drums, batida, tribal, techno—it's all here, stitched together with precision and intention.

De Vargas is also, crucially, reckoning with these roots. His 2018 EP Testigo confronted the colonial violence embedded in the history of the Río de la Plata. His sets are similarly alive with memory—asking, without nostalgia: what does it mean to inherit rhythm? Who gets to carry it forward?

He's also just a killer DJ, one of those rare artists who uses CDJs like an instrument. His sets are full of hot cues, delay FX and left turns. It's technical, but never cold. It’s, in a word, funky.

@lechugazafiro
Find the interview and tracklist at ra.co/podcast/985

RA.985 Lechuga Zafiro

earth²radio - EPISODE 5 - 5 May 2025

The Medellín maverick opens RA.997 with another mind-altering home run.

As part of our countdown to the 1000th edition of the RA Podcast, a milestone in the 18-year history of Resident Advisor's weekly mix series, we're switching up the usual format.

This week, following heady excursions through Lagos, Kampala, Detroit and Chicago, our focus shifts to Latin America—arguably the story in underground electronic music since the pandemic.

After years of being all but overlooked internationally, the explosion of distinctive club sounds emerging from Peru, Brazil, Colombia and beyond has finally begun to get its due.

Among the movement's great success stories are two artists who exemplify its refreshingly undogmatic energy: Verraco and Bitter Babe, and the former handles the A-side of RA.997. 

Is there a more compelling electronic artist around right now? Both in the studio and behind the decks, the Medellín-based DJ and producer currently sits in that coveted creative sweet spot, where every fresh musical morsel feels like a moment. To bask in any of his singular tracks on VOAM, Timedance and now XL Recordings, is to be bowled over by their rhythmic brilliance, madcap hooks and whirlpool basslines. ("Basic Maneuvers," anyone?)

His mix is tough to pin down—a blend of dubby techno, tribal atmospheres, slanted bass and sharp edits. Or, as he puts it in the accompanying interview: “an intersection between dub-infused techno but with some flow, reduced atmospheric tribal, edgy bass cuts, mental emo-tek.”

There’s plenty of unreleased TraTraTrax material here, alongside tracks from artists like Virginia, A Made Up Sound and a euphoric flip of Ploy’s “Ramos.” Slippery, emotional and surgically precise, it’s Verraco doing what he does best.

Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1001

RA.997 Verraco

Bitter Babe takes the second half of RA.997, revelling in the fullness of the Latin electronic continuum. 

As part of our countdown to the 1000th edition of the RA Podcast, a milestone in the 18-year history of Resident Advisor's weekly mix series, we're switching up the usual format.

This week, following heady excursions through Lagos, Kampala, Detroit and Chicago, our focus shifts to Latin America—arguably the story in underground electronic music since the pandemic. 

After years of being all but ignored internationally, the glut of special club sounds coming out of Peru, Brazil, Colombia and beyond have finally received their flowers. 

Among the movement's great success stories are two artists who exemplify its refreshingly undogmatic energy: Verraco and Bitter Babe. 

Bitter Babe, naturally, takes the B. As a DJ, she reflects the fullness of the Latin electronic experience—"diverse, messy, emotional, political and full of contradictions," as she says in her interview. 

Her rollicking rides through guaracha, dembow, cumbia, techno and everything in between are powerful counters to anyone who believes the culture begins and ends with Shakira and Bad Bunny. And, as she'd like to remind everyone, "not every offbeat rhythm with Latin percussion is reggaeton."

Skip through the 60-minute mix and you'll hear wildly different rhythms at every juncture. Surely, you might assume, at the expense of flow? And yet enjoyed (as intended) from start to finish, the tunes gel like milk and honey, each silky transition subtly phasing in fresh tones and percussive flourishes. It's fast, feverish and intensely riveting.

@bitterbabe
Find the tracklist and interview at ra.co/podcast/1001

Correction: the final version of this mix was uploaded on Tuesday, July 15th.

RA.997 Bitter Babe

Track selector, visual artist, and aspiring electronic music producer from Bogotá, Colombia. Now based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.

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